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Die Zauberfl?te
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, March 23, 1957
In English
Die Zauberfl?te (132)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Emanuel Schikaneder
- Pamina
- Lucine Amara
- Tamino
- Brian Sullivan
- Queen of the Night
- Irene Jordan [Last performance]
- Sarastro
- Jerome Hines
- Papageno
- Theodor Uppman
- Papagena
- Mildred Allen
- Monostatos
- Paul Franke
- Speaker
- Clifford Harvuot
- First Lady
- Heidi Krall
- Second Lady
- Madelaine Chambers
- Third Lady
- Sandra Warfield
- Genie
- Emilia Cundari
- Genie
- Rosalind Elias
- Genie
- Margaret Roggero
- Priest
- James McCracken
- Priest
- Osie Hawkins
- Guard
- Albert Da Costa
- Guard
- Louis Sgarro
- Slave
- Henry Arthur
- Slave
- John Frydel
- Slave
- Hal Roberts
- Conductor
- Tibor Kozma
Review 1:
Review of Jay S. Harrison in the Herald Tribune
Irene Jordan Returns to Met
Irene Jordan, who has not been heard at the Metropolitan Opera in nine years, returned to the company Saturday night with a new voice and in a new role. During her initial season in 1946, Miss Jordan functioned as a mezzo-soprano whose efforts were mostly confined to small roles, among them the First Genie in Mozart's "The Magic Flute." On this occasion she appeared again in "The Magic Flute," but this time as a coloratura and in the principal part of The Queen of the Night. The remainder of the cast, by now familiar to devotees of the production, included Lucine Amara as Pamina, Brian Sullivan as Tamino, Theodor Uppman as Papageno, Jerome Hines as Sarastro, Clifford Harvuot as The High Priest and Paul Franke as Monostatos. Tibor Kozma was again the conductor.
It is, one hopes, not misplaced charity to attribute the results of Miss Jordan's performance to a severe case of debut nerves, since the singer was quite clearly off her stride. Her coloratura was consistently out of tune, for which reason the Queen's supposedly blinding technical displays made absolutely no effect, and the perceptible break between her registers often snapped the thematic line at crucial moments. In all, it was an unhappy showing which very likely may be traced to the pressures naturally attendant on a first appearance at the Met in a major assignment.
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- Tibor Kozma [Conductor]
- Lucine Amara [Pamina]
- Brian Sullivan [Tamino]
- Irene Jordan [Queen of the Night]
- Jerome Hines [Sarastro]
- Theodor Uppman [Papageno]
- Mildred Allen [Papagena]
- Paul Franke [Monostatos]
- Clifford Harvuot [Speaker]
- Heidi Krall [First Lady]
- Madelaine Chambers [Second Lady]
- Sandra Warfield [Third Lady]
- Emilia Cundari [Genie]
- Rosalind Elias [Genie]
- Margaret Roggero [Genie]
- James McCracken [Priest]
- Osie Hawkins [Priest]
- Albert Da Costa [Guard]
- Louis Sgarro [Guard]
- Henry Arthur [Slave]
- John Frydel [Slave]
- Hal Roberts [Slave]